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martinald on Feb 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: iOS holding my phone number hostage = the worst bu...

This is the problem with bolting proprietary standards on top of legacy methodology.

I do swear that iOS by default does send SMS after 5 minutes if it can't do it over iMessage though?

lostlogin on Feb 3, 2014 [–]

Not always, even when 'send as SMS when iMessage is unavailable' is turned on. Fixing iMessage issues is near impossible due to the complete absence of useful settings.

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